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by gigq 13y ago
By the same logic why wouldn't you use all the extra cash you have to buy bitcoins? If you frame it that way then the answer is obvious, there is no guarantee the value will continue to rise so you will use it to purchase when you thi
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by gigq 13y ago
If you've dealt with any of the bitcoin exchanges you'd realize Coinbase is the most reputable and trustworthy. It's either deal with them, trust Magic the Gathering Online Xchange or the Russian mobsters over at btc-e.com.
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by gigq 13y ago
Not all think that way at least: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CU040Hqbas
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Computing for Good(computingforgood.org)
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by gigq 13y ago
An even smarter criminal would have "mined" the Ripple give away using EC2, there are still people paying for those instances as we speak so surely they would be more profitable than litecoin mining (assuming you sell them right a
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by gigq 13y ago
Makes you wonder why the criminal didn't launch g2.2xlarge instances which would get 185 kH/s per instance. In fact for awhile there litecoin mining was profitable at spot prices. http://www.completefusion.com/pro
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by gigq 13y ago
One cc2.8xlarge instance will give you 85 kH/s so 20 instances would give 1700 kH/s which only nets about $18 at current market prices / difficulty. So over 2 days he would have made off with a whopping $36.
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by gigq 13y ago
Yes please do, I'd also contribute.
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by gigq 13y ago
I believe to claim the reward you have to reproduce the issue, there is already a patch out for the F_FULLFSYNC change. https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/attachmentText?id=1...
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by gigq 13y ago
Yep, that's the only way to do it with zero risk. But since btcchina.com is consistently higher than the other top exchanges you'll eventually have to move CNY out of there and bitcoin in. Moving bitcoin there is trivial (which
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by gigq 13y ago
From an Amazon review: You can return it to Amazon or Call Sony @ 1(800)345-7669 to schedule a replacement. Mine is broken like everyone elses. If your console light turns white (and doesn't get stuck at pulsating blue), it could be th
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by gigq 13y ago
There appears to be multiple issues going on that are probably all being filed under the console being bricked. HDMI seems to be causing problems where the console won't show a picture but everything internally is still working. Ther
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by gigq 13y ago
Will you guys be supporting the previous app for people that have already downloaded it? Or at least not making any API changes that will break it?
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by gigq 13y ago
The point in the article was that if you sent the coins to an address that never spent any coins (like the reference client does where it will always create a new "change" address for left over coins from a transaction) then the
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by gigq 13y ago
That sounds pretty useful, something I would love to see open sourced as I've thought about making a distributed LevelDB based DB as well. Any word on how it handles the distribution? Are we talking a quorum based system like Cassandr
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by gigq 13y ago
From what I can tell it's not just legacy systems that are the problem. I just tried the system for the first time today and there are multiple form issues (errors like "Error: id" with no further explanation) and broken lin
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by gigq 13y ago
There are only 3600 BTC per day being generated. They can't just generate a few million bitcoins. At best they could do a 51% attack and double spend bitcoin, which would cause problems but it's been done in other digital curren
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by gigq 13y ago
I would think it's a pretty safe assumption he already had multiple copies of the wallet/private keys stored before he got arrested. Just from a redundancy standpoint you don't want one copy of your wallet in one location as
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by gigq 13y ago
Bitcoin does have the ability to store this kind of information in the actual blockchain, but blockchain.info decided it was not worth the bloat. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7864/is-a-public-...
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by gigq 13y ago
Isn't this what http://betsofbitco.in does?
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by gigq 13y ago
Ah, good to know that functionality was added. I haven't used Cassandra since the 0.6.x days so my knowledge of what's possible there is rusty.
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by gigq 13y ago
It wasn't really mentioned in the article but if you do both {X1,Y1} and {X2,Y2} as full row updates then no you can't end up with a mixed row. http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/row-level-isolation
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by gigq 13y ago
It's worth noting that HBase has the same method of using LWW on column level updates. While this usually is what you want and like Cassandra it gives you the ability to do fast blind writes there are sometimes that you need to make s
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by gigq 13y ago
I also have an RX1 and it really is a fantastic camera. I bet the OP was talking about the rumored full frame interchangeable lens camera (possibly a full frame NEX) that Sony is supposed to be announcing soon.
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by gigq 13y ago
The company I work for had a similar experience with Cassandra. We were running it back in the 0.6 days. Once any of our nodes got around 500GB on them the performance would tank. It seems that they later fixed the performance in 1.2 ( ht
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Taking the bait: Apache HBase(blogs.apache.org)
2 points by gigq 13y ago|0 comments
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by gigq 13y ago
In practice it doesn't seem to matter. For example btc-e.com who accepts both bitcoin and litecoin for trading makes you wait 3 confirmations for bitcoin and 6 confirmations for litecoin. So you are correct that 1 litecoin transactio
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by gigq 13y ago
There is the concept of green addresses ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Green_address ) to solve this. Basically if customers use a wallet that the merchant trusts not to commit a double spend then they can safely accept a
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by gigq 13y ago
Is anyone else surprised that the creator of Litecoin needed to take a job? Given that the market cap of Litecoin is 53 million I would have expected the creator to have mined a good amount of that in the early days. Of course he may have
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by gigq 13y ago
Unfortunately this idea was patented 13 years ago: http://www.google.com/patents/US6124583 Makes you realize why there are no commercial implementations of this and why patents are terrible.

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